Ok I'm slightly confuzzled. I'm going to be getting an xbox soon, but I only have a sdtv. Thats all good though. But now it outputs at 640x480, still fine. Today, however, when I hooked my pc up to the tv it could go up to 1024x768. So now why can't the xbox do that? What gives?
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Question about xbox on SDTV
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theratman
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Do you have s-video on your SDTV?Buy an s-vid cable(for xbox) from kalahari(R150 or so)THe difference is great,I had one when I used to have an Sdtv.
To your main question,I think your Tv is only capable of 640 x 480?Strange that you can get 1024.Are you sure its 1024?640x480 looks way better on a tv than it does on a pc.
Found this for you:
SDTV: Standard-definition television or SDTV refers to television systems that have a lower resolution than HDTV systems (704x480 or 640x480). The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same (or similar) resolution as analog systems.
SDTV
704 x 480
16:9
60p, 60i, 30p, 24p
SDTV
704 x 480
4:3
60p, 60i, 30p, 24p
SDTV
640 x 480
4:3
60p, 60i, 30p, 24p
http://www.msxbox-world.com/xbox360-HDTV.php
Check it out
To your main question,I think your Tv is only capable of 640 x 480?Strange that you can get 1024.Are you sure its 1024?640x480 looks way better on a tv than it does on a pc.
Found this for you:
SDTV: Standard-definition television or SDTV refers to television systems that have a lower resolution than HDTV systems (704x480 or 640x480). The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same (or similar) resolution as analog systems.
SDTV
704 x 480
16:9
60p, 60i, 30p, 24p
SDTV
704 x 480
4:3
60p, 60i, 30p, 24p
SDTV
640 x 480
4:3
60p, 60i, 30p, 24p
http://www.msxbox-world.com/xbox360-HDTV.php
Check it out
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aFAIK, you're tv will display at the best resolution it can, even if the input signal has a better resolution. So are you that the tv actually displayed at 1024x768. I think SDTV is 480i by definition.
Did you try to manually change the resolution setting of the xbox?
theratman
Honorary Master
I think I found it.
The 360 will support 1024x768 through the VGA port only.
Do you have a VGA port on your telly?
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?board_id=909102864&topic_id=25750467
The 360 will support 1024x768 through the VGA port only.
Do you have a VGA port on your telly?
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?board_id=909102864&topic_id=25750467
I don't have the xbox yet, but I will try get a VGA cable when I get it. I could set the resolution in Display Settings and CCC to 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. I can't really comment on picture quality unfortunatly cause the Pb component cable was stuffing around, so the image was mostly black and white.
do you mean on your pc or tv that you could set the res, if its on the pc then the tv is porbably downgrading it to fit on the screen, so theres no benefit to running at 1024x768, basically you want the xbox to run at the same res as your screen, no point in upping the resolution if your tv is just going to downscale it
I'd expect the graphics card to be converting that resolution down to the TV's real resolution. If it's a PAL TV that would be 576 lines.
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I thought there weren't any CRTs that could do 1024 x 768?
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Your TV is still displaying at its native 640x480 resolution.
The fact that you hooked your PC up to the TV and changed the PCs setting to 1024x768 doesn't necessarily mean anything. All it means is that it will expand the area and shrink things like fonts so that it's unreadable.
Basically your TV may accept a higher resolution input, but whether it actually outputs that is another issue altogether.
The fact that you hooked your PC up to the TV and changed the PCs setting to 1024x768 doesn't necessarily mean anything. All it means is that it will expand the area and shrink things like fonts so that it's unreadable.
Basically your TV may accept a higher resolution input, but whether it actually outputs that is another issue altogether.
Ah ok coolbeans. I think I understand now.
BTW, the TV is a Samsung CS-29M40MH.